{"id":1950,"date":"2009-02-19T23:31:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T07:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2009-02-19T23:31:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T07:31:41","slug":"pc-world-how-will-the-72-billion-allotted-for-broadband-stimulus-be-spent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/19\/pc-world-how-will-the-72-billion-allotted-for-broadband-stimulus-be-spent\/","title":{"rendered":"PC World: How Will the $7.2 Billion Allotted for Broadband Stimulus Be Spent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/159866\/how_will_the_72_billion_allotted_for_broadband_stimulus_be_spent.html\">PC World, February 20 2009<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>by Cyrus Farivar<\/p>\n<p>In the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, recently enacted by Congress, many details regarding the allocation of funds for high-tech projects remain blurry. Nevertheless, the nation&#8217;s tech community appears to be encouraged by the $7.2 billion provision for broadband in the near $789 billion economic stimulus package signed into law by President Barack Obama earlier this week. Many observers believe that the allocation is a clear first step toward establishing a nationwide broadband strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Officially known as &#8220;Title VI&#8211;Broadband Technology Opportunities Program,&#8221; the $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus money accounts for less than 1 percent (and only five pages) of the entire package. Its purpose is to spur broadband growth in underserved areas of the country.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PC World, February 20 2009: by Cyrus Farivar In the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, recently enacted by Congress, many details regarding the allocation of funds for high-tech projects remain blurry. Nevertheless, the nation&#8217;s tech community appears to be encouraged by the $7.2 billion provision for broadband in the near $789 billion economic stimulus package signed into law by President Barack Obama earlier this week. Many observers believe that the allocation is a clear first step toward establishing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[51,92,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-economics","category-internet","category-journalism","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-vs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}